Category: music

In addition to being the 10th of December and the 12th day of Advent, today is my sister-in-law Tanya’s birthday! Happy birthday Tan! Tanya is extremely fond of Australian birds, and so there was only one possible Christmas Carol to…

I was going to post this song later in the week, but given my accidental Basque theme, I couldn’t resist adding some Catalan to the mix. This piece is a traditional Catalan carol which I found by accident when looking…

I seem to have a bit of an accidental Basque theme going this week – yesterday’s carol was a contemporary setting of an old text by a Basque composer, and today’s carol is a traditional Basque carol. I’ve always loved…

Every Advent, I go looking for O Magnum Mysterium online, and every year I find that yet another composer has written his (or her, but so far I think only his) setting to this text (or rather, that their setting…

I make no apology for including this piece of music again, even though I include it in my Advent Calendar every year. I’ve sung the alto solo (really a countertenor solo) in The Record of John on the first Sunday…

Today’s post was going to be the gorgeous King’s Singers version of The Truth Sent From Above, but then I realised that it might be better to save my crush on the King’s Singers for later in December. Besides, I’m…

A bit of a change of pace today, because Friday is a day for Frivolity, or at least for taking a break from fruit-themed carols. Though, of course, there is a little bit of fruit in this carol too. The…

Maintaining this week’s theme of fruit (hey, sometimes you just have to embrace these things), here’s a carol that comes from a genre I am hereby dubbing ‘Medieval Bible Filk’, or possibly ‘Medieval Bible Fanfic’. It’s inspired by the New…

Continuing our apple theme from yesterday, here’s a modern carol that feels a bit medieval. The lyrics are from an 18th century poem whose author is unknown except for the initials ‘R.H.’, and they aren’t strictly Christmassy, but that hasn’t…

It’s not advent without Adam Lay Y Bounden. This has been a favourite carol of mine for a long time, particularly the version by Boris Ord, with that gorgeous soaring ‘Deo Gracias’ at the end of it. Admittedly, my initial…

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